In 2015,
leaders are expected to decide on a new set of global development goals to
succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The 2013 Hunger Report calls for a
redoubling of efforts in the next three years—a final push—to meet the MDG
targets. Extraordinary progress has been made in countries in every region, and
it is possible to replicate these achievements in many more nations. A strong
finish on the MDGs will create momentum and support for the next set of global
goals.

The 2013 Hunger
Report proposes that the next global development goals include a bull's-eye
focus on ending hunger and poverty. It calls on the United States to actively
engage in the discussions under way of the "post-2015 agenda" and to help
form a global consensus around a goal to end hunger and poverty. Presidential
leadership will be critical. The release of the report just after the
presidential election makes this an opportune time to get these issues on the
agenda.

The report looks at
how the MDGs have affected our thinking about poverty reduction and global
development and outlines current and future challenges to making further
progress. Meeting those challenges will depend on strong leadership, effective
institutions, and partners committed to working together. The MDGs have
heightened our awareness of how important partnerships are in achieving rapid
progress against hunger and poverty—partnerships between developed, emerging,
and developing country governments as well as between governments and civil
society.

The
Hunger Report argues that the new global development goals should apply to
every country and that each country should set its own context-specific goals.
As the MDGs have shown, setting goals is an effective way to activate political
will. Poverty and hunger are absolutely unnecessary in developed countries such
as the United States. The report calls on the president to set a national goal
to end hunger and poverty in the United States.

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